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DANCE

                                                 August 5, 2000      


 		    House music has a relatively
 		    fast beat, a bit over 120 BPM -- 
                    2 beats per second.  But 	      
 		    people dance to it with fairly 
		    simple moves, often just stepping 
		    side to side.  So the beat doesn't 
		    seem that fast to them. 
		      			    
		      			    
		      			    
    Guys (usually it's guys) 		    In places where the even 
    who dance to hip-hop                    faster "hardcore" techno was    
    make big, athletic moves.               popular, a style of dance    
    The beat has to be pretty               evolved that relied heavily on 
    slow to give them time                  hand motions.  People would 
    to move that far.                       wear white gloves to make their 
                                            hands more visible, and dance 
                                            with their arms, moving their 
		      			    hands up and down to the 
		      			    superfast beat. 
	     
       Ambient music is nearly
       beatless, very slow,   
       paced to the motion of  
       a stationary body.             Improvised music is often      
                                      incredibly fast: a sax bleating
                                      out notes as quickly as the    
                                      player's fingers can move.      
                              
                                                          
                                          To match the maximum
                                          speed of the mind.  

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